Coleen Rooney has revealed her husband Wayne had no idea she was going to expose Rebekah Vardy in Wagatha Christie scandal.
The drama between Wayne Rooney and Jamie Vardy’s wives kicked off in October 2019.
At the time, Coleen posted a statement on social media, claiming she had planted false information on her private Instagram page and blocked everyone from her story – except Rebekah’s account.
Coleen said stories about her basement flooding, returning to TV, and gender selection were only viewed by Rebekah’s account – and the false stories all made it into the press.
The mother-of-four believed this was proof that her fellow WAG allegedly sold stories about her private life, but Rebekah vehemently denied her claims.
Their lengthy legal battle concluded with a seven-day trial at London’s High Court in May 2022, and saw Coleen emerge victorious.
Speaking on Monday night’s The One Show, Coleen admitted Wayne found out about the scandal when she posted her iconic “It’s… Rebekah Vardy’s account” statement on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Coleen revealed: “He was in America at the time and just said, ‘What have you done?’ I think people were shocked, especially people close to me, that I’d put it on social media because that’s not my character at all.”
“It was so stressful, I feel like a massive cloud has lifted now,” she admitted, ahead of the release of her Disney+ documentary Coleen Rooney: The Real Wagatha Story on October 18.
“Even though I was there physically looking after the children, mentally I just wasn’t, so now I just feel so grateful to be present again and just be there with the kids both physically and mentally.”
She said of her secrecy over the post: “That’s the way I’ve always coped in life, that is my coping mechanism is to keep things within and not to trouble other people.”
“I don’t like to say something and then them be worried about me so I wanted to make sure I had got everything I could right and then deliver what I’d be doing,’ Coleen continued.
Although the iconic phrase ‘Wagatha Christie’ was coined to describe Coleen, Rebekah trademarked it earlier this year.
Disney+, which created a tell-all docuseries about the situation from Coleen’s perspective, was therefore unable to use ‘Wagatha Christie’ in the title.
However, the streaming platform side-stepped the problem, titling the docuseries Coleen Rooney: The Real Wagatha Story.
Coleen Rooney: The Real Wagatha Story will air on Disney+ on October 18.
The highly-publicised Wagatha Christie trial saw both WAGs give evidence in court, as Rebekah tried to prove she wasn’t behind the leaks.
However, Coleen defended her claim in court on the basis her post was “substantially true”.
Mrs Justice Steyn, who oversaw the week-long case in May, delivered her written ruling in July 2022.
In her ruling, the judge agreed with Coleen’s defence, and said it was “likely” that Rebekah’s then-agent, Caroline Watt, “undertook the direct act” of passing information to The Sun newspaper.
Rebekah strongly denied Coleen’s claims in court, but on the final day of the trial, she accepted that her former agent Caroline, who had access to her Instagram account, may have been behind the leaks.
